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TORONTO -- R.A. Dickeys knuckleball finally danced like it did last year when he was the best pitcher in the National League. Dickey baffled the New York Yankees for seven innings and Colby Rasmus and Rajai Davis homered as the Toronto Blue Jays won the opener of a three-game series 2-0 on Tuesday. "What you saw tonight is what I saw last year for 25 starts," said catcher Josh Thole who accompanied the Cy Young Award winner to Toronto in an off-season trade with the Mets. "It was consistently that every night." Dickey (13-12) struggled in the first two innings then faced the minimum number of batters for the next five innings. He struck out eight in holding the Yankees to four hits and two walks to win his fourth decision in a row. "It was probably the latest action Ive had on it here in particular," Dickey said. "So its nice to continue to grow. These are important games for me in particular. Were going to be competing next year so its important to get it right now." Rasmus hit his 21st homer of the season -- and third in three games since returning from the disabled list -- in the fourth inning against left-hander Andy Pettitte (10-10). Davis hit his sixth of the season against right-hander Shawn Kelley in the seventh. The Yankees (79-72), who entered Tuesday 2.5 games out of an American League wild-card spot, have lost four in a row. The Blue Jays (69-81) have won only twice in their first seven games of a nine-game home stand. Sergio Santos took over from Dickey in the eighth. Casey Janssen pitched the ninth for his 31st save of the season. Pettitte lost for the first time since Aug. 5 as he allowed six hits, two walks and one run while striking out five in 6 2/3 innings. He had three wins and four no decisions in his previous seven starts. "Its frustrating," Pettitte said. "Were playing terrible and its not good. Its a bad time to be doing that. If we pitch we got to score some runs. If we score some runs, weve got to pitch. It seems like we havent been doing a lot of mixing and matching together. Dickey pitched a good game. His knuckleball, he threw it well." Dickey left the bases loaded in the first when he struck out Mark Reynolds. He left two more runners stranded in the second, and struck out the side in the third before being helped by a fourth-inning double play. "I didnt get discouraged the first two innings," Dickey said. "I was throwing good knuckleballs. I thought I had a couple of pitches there 3-2 and ended up being balls but outside of that it was moving pretty drastically tonight. Even in the first two innings, I knew I had a pretty good one. I just needed to stay the course with it." The Blue Jays took a 1-0 lead with one out in the fourth when Rasmus homered to right on a 2-2 hanger. The centre-fielder came off the disabled list on Sept. 13 after not playing since Aug. 11 because of an oblique strain. "I made a terrible mistake to Rasmus and that was the ball game," Pettitte said. "He got me deep into an at-bat. I kept trying to bounce a cutter off the top of the plate see if I could try and get him to swing. Bad thought process." Kelley replaced Pettitte with two out in the seventh and Davis homered to left on a 1-0 pitch to extend the lead to 2-0. The way Dickeys knuckleball was working, that was all the Blue Jays needed. He even tried two sidearm pitches. "The knuckleball stayed hard for most of the night, it was moving all over the place," Thole said. "In the pen it was moving more than Ive seen since Ive been here. It was definitely a mental grind for seven innings tonight. "He got stronger as he went on I think. That was the difference. You could see it. His velocity kind of jumped up I think in the third inning, he was throwing the harder consistently and it was all over." Notes: Blue Jays 1B Edwin Encarnacion (left wrist) will undergo season-ending surgery to clean up the cartilage in his left wrist. ... 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Jacob Thorssell won with partner Kyle Howarth in third for a 4-2 as Wolves edged back in front in heat four and they extended their advanntage in heat five as Bech won with Max Clegg picking up a point in third.ddddddddddddHeat six produced a cracking race as the Wolves pair flew from the gate and Niels-Kristian Iversen worked overtime to get past Thorssell, nearly passing Sam Masters on the final lap, but the Australian held on for the win as the home side increased their lead.Wolves showed no sign of stopping and hit another 5-1 in heat seven thanks to Joonas Kylmakorpi and Lindgren, who held off Kings Lynns Robert Lambert on the line for second.Howarth was excluded for the home side in heat eight as he tried to dive under Rose while at the back, but sent the Stars man into the fence as the race was awarded as a 3-3. Rose withdrew from the meeting with injury following the incident. The hosts appeared to be heading to another maximum in heat nine as Bech and Howarth gated but Kai Huckenbeck worked hard to pass Howarth for second and prevent the 5-1. Niels Kristian Iversen cut the deficit in heat 10 Stars boss Rob Lyon responded in heat 10 sending Iversen out on a tactical ride and the Dane duly won with Mads Korneliussen in third for a 7-2 which got the Stars back into the tie.Troy Batchelor was excluded in heat 11 as he missed the two minute time allowance and was replaced by Roynon.Lambert made the gate for the Stars but was passed by Lindgren with Bech in third for a heat advantage to the home side. Wolves sealed the win in heat 12 as Howarth and Clegg eased to a 5-1. 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